{"product_id":"9780803282384","title":"A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724-1774","description":"\"McConnell shows admirable sensitivity to the plight of the Ohio refugees but not only as they were victims of circumstance. He portrays their changing but constant struggles to preserve a boundary between themselves and advancing Europeans. . . . McConnell eschews romanticism. This is history as it happened.\"-Journal of American History. \"An excellent account of Indian diplomacy in the late Colonial period.\"-Choice.  \"McConnell makes a significant contribution to ethnohistory by chronicling with unprecedented precision the history of frontier interactions in the Upper Ohio Valley.\"-Ethnohistory.  \"A well-written, judicious and thoughtful study supplying an essential perspective to our understanding of the colonial period . . . obligatory reading for all interested in the early history of Ohio and Pennsylvania.\"-Ohio History.  \"Solid history, recommended to all who wish to learn more about Ohio's Indian heritage.\"-Northwest Ohio Quarterly.  The Ohio Country in the eighteenth century was a zone of international strife, and the Delawares, Shawnees, Iroquois, and other natives who had taken refuge there were caught between the territorial ambitions of the French and British. A Country Between is unique in assuming the perspective of the Indians who struggled to maintain their autonomy in a geographical tinderbox. Michael N. McConnell is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  ","brand":"UNP - Nebraska Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300755226864,"sku":"9780803282384","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803282384_p0.jpg?v=1763729224","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803282384","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}